IJN Akagi/IJN Kaga/IJN Soryu/IJN Hiryu USS Lexington
There were four airplanes with terrorists in them that crashed. Because the government shut down all US airspace right after the first one hit, no one could fly after that so probably just the four.
During World War II in the Pacific Ocean, it was necessary for the Allies to fight from island to island. The Japanese had occupied dozens of Pacific islands. They all either needed to be taken or cut off from supply lines. Many of the islands were strategic in nature and provided bases to fly from to attack the Japanese homeland.
Pearl HarborThere may have been other events, but the deciding event was the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor.
There are two reasons why America wanted to capture Iwo Jima. There were two airstrips on Iwo Jima and the Americans could use those to land broken B-29's that needed repairing. The other reason is that If the Americans are going to bomb japan, Iwo Jima would inform the main land of Japan and form a counter-strike. It was mandatory for the americans to take Iwo Jima, because if they didn't Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been failures.
Battle at Midway
The Japanese lost four of their most important aircraft carriers and this defeat changed the momentum to the Allies favor.
The carriers of the US Pacific Fleet surprised the Japanese who had come to destroy it, sinking four Japanese fleet carriers at the loss of one of their own, completely turning the tables in the Pacific war at sea.
The results were devastatig. By the end of the Battle of Midway, the Japanese had lost four aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and 250 planes.
The results were devastatig. By the end of the Battle of Midway, the Japanese had lost four aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and 250 planes.
Battle of Midway US naval aircraft sank the four Japanese aircraft carriers that were supporting the invasion force.
June 4, at the Battle of Midway Island. U.S. planes destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers. The United States defeated the Japanese navy and established naval superiority in the Pacific.
The Japanese lost 4 of their aircraft carriers.
The Japanese lost 4 of their aircraft carriers.
The japanese sought a major defeat of US forces at Midway with four front-line aircraft carriers, the Kaga--90 aircraft, Akagi--91 aircraft, Soryu--73 aircraft, Hiryu--73 aircraft, a total thus of some 327 aircraft carried by all four carriers. In addition to this number, most of their other fleet units carried one or more flaot planes. All four carriers and their planes and pilots were lost Volkhava About 250 but nearly all destroyed
Fleet Aircraft Carriers. (Fleet Carriers are a navy's largest carrier).
The actual invasion ships were not heavily damaged, but the Japanese carriers supporting the invasion (all of which had earlier attacked Pearl Harbor) were destroyed by planes from the US carriers.Only two attacks were made on the Japanese invasion force at the Battle of Midway, both by Midway-based aircraft. The attacks only succeeded in damaging one vessel. The most damage was done to the Japanese carrier strike force by carrier-based dive-bombers, which sank all four enemy carriers.